Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
DeSantis Lauds Kayleigh McEnany in Wake of Trump’s Attack: ‘One of His Greatest Selections’
thewrap.coma New Hampshire Journal podcast, called her one of Trump’s “greatest selections” in a backhanded compliment but in certainly more favorable terms than the former president had when he nicknamed her “Milktoast.”“Donald Trump, even his greatest supporters have acknowledged, had a tough time picking good people,” DeSantis said on the podcast published Friday. “He had a lot of terrible personnel decisions.
People like Jerome Adams, his surgeon general. And, obviously, he elevated [Anthony] Fauci to lead the task force. But Kayleigh was one of his greatest selections.
She did a fantastic job.”DeSantis added that McEnany’s family was from Florida and that she was Harvard-educated lawyer who was too often underestimated during her stint as Trump’s White House press secretary.“So we were very proud of her,” DeSantis said, glossing over the fact Trump is a Florida resident.“She’s an absolute killer, and she ate the press alive,” DeSantis said. “And so for [Trump] to be attacking her, I thought that was really, really bad.”Trump soured on McEnany, now a glowing Fox News personality, after she broke down the result of a primary poll in which, according to Trump, she shorted him by nine points.
To express his displeasure, he took to his social network, Truth Social, on Tuesday, calling her Kayleigh “Milktoast” McEnany in a misspelling of milquetoast, defined by Merriam-Webster as a timid, meek or unassertive person.McEnany had appeared on Fox News during “Jesse Waters Primetime, saying Trump was leading DeSantis in the Republican race by 25 percentage points, according to a recent poll.
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